@xtebordo The parts about the daughter made it worth it for me. A great section of an otherwise "okay" novel.
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Remi Skytterstad
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i skipped 'topeka school' because it sounded unbearable. i'd read all the rest of his fiction and poetry and been openly jealous of some of it. 'transcription' is aesthetically beneath his talents, epistemologically boring, and ontologically, uh, millennial.
Christian TeBordo@xtebordo
shit. i just started 'transcription' and am concerned that ben lerner has succumbed to a thing that almost all successful writers (and many writers who would like to be perceived as successful) do, which is trying to sound 'wise' prematurely. he's an ironist, tho, so we'll see.
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If Buddenbrooks were an Instagram reel
Gay Interrupted@TwinkTheory
22. Hot. Sweeping the literary world. Fml
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The Philosophy Bites podcast has now had over 50 million unique episode downloads!
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And by "rezz", of course, I refer to the word "sprezzatura", defined as "a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it" in The Book of the Courtier from 1528 by Castiglione
John Attridge@John_Attridge
And by "rizz", of course, I mean the process of "letteraturizzazione", or literaturisation, that befell the rhetorical tradition during the Hellenistic period
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“I spend an inordinate amount of time doing nothing.”
This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with Joyce Carol Oates from the archive. buff.ly/3GKYxZm
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A ludicrously capacious bag. What's even in there? Huh? Flat shoes for the subway? Your lunch pail? I mean, Paris, it's monstrous. It's gargantuan. You could take it camping. You could slide it across the floor after a bank job.
The Paris Review@parisreview
A new tote, perfect for the subway. buff.ly/40T7fhv
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In remembrance of Milan Kundera, who died last week at the age of ninety-four, we’ve unlocking his Art of Fiction interview from the archive, along with an excerpt from his novel, Slowness.
theparisreview.org/interviews/297…
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“What exactly did Ulysses do to the novel? And if we can’t escape it, how can we go on?”
Happy Bloomsday! Sally Rooney on misreading Ulysses:
theparisreview.org/blog/2022/12/0…
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ONE OF THE DEFINITIONS OF 'LITERALLY' IS "IN EFFECT, VIRTUALLY—USED IN AN EXAGGERATED WAY TO EMPHASIZE A STATEMENT OR DESCRIPTION." SOME PEOPLE GET MAD IF YOU USE IT THIS WAY BECAUSE IT ISN'T THE WORD'S PRIMARY MEANING, BUT THIS SENSE OF 'LITERALLY' HAS BEEN USED FOR 250 YEARS SO
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Submission tip: If you think a story is ready to submit, wait one week and read it again. Do this indefinitely and never submit again.
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Arendt giving off the most perfect exasperated energy here I love it
"I hate to be so difficult, but I'm afraid the truth is that I am."
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‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green #Echobox=1642673234-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/…
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@danirosepoet One of the most pervasive myths about creativity is its glorified relationship with mental illness, drugs, etc. There's the Sylvia Plath effect, but there's probably something to be said there about its causality
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There is no discourse I find more tedious than this, except for the ananas on pizza one
soul nate@MNateShyamalan
i have never once heard anybody say “die hard is not a christmas movie.” but the die hard is a christmas movie people still walk around like they have been hunted to the ends of the earth for their beliefs
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